How I Receive Information During an Intuitive Reading

People ask me all the time how I actually receive information during a session. In this post I share how it works for me specifically and what my training added to what I was already naturally receiving.

Your energy is already telling a story. A Life Clarity Reading is where you find out what it says.

I have been receiving information about people my whole life.

As a child I felt the things people did not say out loud. The heaviness behind a smile. The fear behind a calm face. The quiet excitement someone was holding about something they had not told anyone yet. The grief someone was carrying alone. I walked into rooms and felt the emotional weather of everyone in them before a single word was spoken. I also heard a voice inside my head, I called the “me-not-me” voice, steadier than my own thinking, less anxious, more certain, that showed up when something important needed to be known.

I thought this was how everyone experienced being a person. I was in my thirties before I understood it was not.

There are six ways people receive information intuitively: clairvoyance (inner seeing), clairaudience (inner hearing), clairsentience (feeling a physical sensation), clairempathy (feeling emotions), claircognizance (inner knowing), clairalience (inner smelling), and clairgustance (inner tasting). I receive information through clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, clairempathy, claircognizance, and occasionally clairalience and clairgustance, and I am also a trained vocal channel. People sometimes refer to this kind of work as psychic reading, though I prefer the term intuitive reading because it more accurately describes what actually happens in a session

In my sessions all of these “clairs” work simultaneously, each one adding a layer to what is coming through. Here is what each one actually looks like to me from the inside.

What Is Clairvoyance and How Does It Work

When I read your energy I receive scenes, like clips from a movie. Two people having an argument in a kitchen. Someone sitting alone making a decision they have been putting off for years. A child being told to be quiet one too many times. The scenes arrive fully formed with meaning already attached, and they usually show me something about you that happened long before you ever found me.

When Anne walked into my office I shook her hand and immediately saw her standing in a room with someone who was dying, completely at peace, completely in her element. Before she said a word I asked her: “You are not afraid of death, are you?” She showed no surprise. “That is correct,” she said. “I work at a hospice and I love my job, it is the best job I could ask for.”

What Is Clairaudience and How Does It Work

I do not hear it with my physical ears. I hear it in my head, like a thought, but the quality of the voice is completely different from my own thinking. My own thoughts are faster, more tangled, more attached to outcome. What comes through in a session is slower. Calmer. Non-judgmental, loving, accepting, and completely non-emotional. Once you learn to recognize the difference you cannot confuse the two.

Kathy came in stuck in a pattern she could not break. She was a talented graphic designer who kept undercharging her clients and then feeling resentful about it. Every time she thought about raising her prices a voice in her head told her to be grateful for what she had and not rock the boat because she could lose it all. The anxiety was so strong she would rather stay resentful than face it.

The moment her session started what arrived was: “Her grandmother is here. She lived through the Great Depression and lost everything. She loves Kathy so much she has been trying to protect her.”

I could feel the love in it. It was not a curse or a block in the way people usually imagine. It was a woman who had suffered enormously trying to make sure her granddaughter never would. Once we helped her grandmother’s spirit receive her own healing, something in Kathy shifted immediately. She raised her prices by ten percent. Then twenty-five. Then fifty. The clients kept coming. The voice that had been running her financial life for years finally went quiet because its source had been addressed.

What Are Clairsentience and Clairempathy and How Do They Work

Clairsentience is physical sensation in my own body that corresponds to what is stored in your energy. Clairempathy is the emotional version of the same channel, where I receive your emotional state directly into my body. In practice the two arrive together and I experience them as one.

A tightness in my chest tells me grief has been stored there, unexpressed for a long time. A heaviness in my stomach tells me there are emotions from the past that have not been processed and are still running the show. A pressure in my solar plexus tells me we are working with self-worth, with someone who has been giving their power away and feels it but cannot stop. An opening sensation in my heart tells me the person is in love, or has recently remembered what that feels like after a long time without it. A spinning sensation in my head tells me the person is overwhelmed, living almost entirely inside their own thinking with no clear way out.

When Melissa came in after a breakup she could not move past, the moment the session started I felt a pulling sensation in my chest that told me immediately these two people had history that went further back than this lifetime. I saw scenes of them together in another place and time, which explained the intensity of the connection she could not logic her way out of no matter how hard she tried. But I also felt something else underneath it, a deep heaviness in her stomach that told me the breakup was not actually the real wound. We traced it back to her father leaving when she was eight years old. That abandonment had been sitting underneath every relationship she had ever been in. The breakup had cracked it open. Once we worked on that, the pull toward her ex weakened and she started to feel a freedom she had not felt in years.

What Is Claircognizance and How Does It Work

Clear knowing is the hardest channel to explain because there is genuinely nothing to point to. No image, no voice, no sensation in my body. Information simply arrives fully formed and completely certain, and there is no process that produced it. I just know. And the knowing has a quality that is unmistakable once you have experienced it enough times, a settled certainty that does not waver the way opinions do.

Patricia came in feeling genuinely stuck. She had a successful career, a loving family, a comfortable life, and she was miserable and could not understand why. She had done enough self-work to know something was off but not enough to see what it actually was.

The moment she started talking I knew. She had spent her entire adult life living inside other people’s expectations and had never once, not seriously, asked herself what she actually wanted. When I said it she went very still. Then she told me she had always wanted to learn pole dancing. She was fifty-one years old, a mother, living in a conservative town, and she had been talking herself out of it for years because it did not fit the version of herself she had been performing for everyone else. We cleared the belief that was keeping her from it. A few weeks later she signed up for her first class. That was in 2017. She is still dancing and twenty-five pounds lighter.

I also occasionally receive information through clairalience and clairgustance, inner smelling and inner tasting. These are not my primary channels but when they show up they are usually pointing to something very specific.

What Is Vocal Channeling and How Does It Work

Vocal channeling is distinct from the clairs. It is the practice of allowing a higher consciousness to communicate through you directly, in real time, using your voice. I have been trained as a vocal channel and work primarily with my spirit guide Ra-Ja, though during ceremonies other guides sometimes come through as well.

Opening a channel is not the hard part. What training teaches is discernment. Recognizing the energetic signature of who is coming through. Knowing the difference between your own higher self, a guide you have a genuine long-term relationship with, and something else entirely. Knowing whether the source can be trusted before you let it speak through you.

After years of working with Ra-Ja I know her signature the way you know the voice of someone you have spoken with every day for a long time. What comes through her carries a quality of unconditional love and complete peace that is unlike anything I generate myself. No judgment. No urgency. No agenda. Just a clarity and a warmth that feels different from anything coming from the human level. That certainty comes from relationship and from training, not from talent alone.

Intuitive Ability vs Intuitive Training: Why the Difference Matters

I was born with open channels. The information was arriving before I had any language for it. Natural ability without training is like having perfect pitch but never studying music. The raw material is there. What you can do with it reliably, for someone else, under pressure, session after session, year after year, is a completely different question.

I began my personal work in 2000 and spent eleven years working on myself before I worked professionally on anyone else. Most people think of training as learning technical skills. In this work the technical skills are the smaller part. The larger part is self-work, and it never stops. Every layer I take clients through I have been through myself. Past lives. Ancestral clearing. Cord cutting. Inner child work. Soul retrieval. Soul contracts. and more. I know what each of these feels like to move through because I have moved through them in my own energy. That is what makes it possible to stay out of the way of what arrives in your session and give you what is actually there.

What This Means for You

If you have read this far you now know something most people never think to ask. Not just that someone is intuitive, but how it actually works, where the information comes from, and what goes into making sure what arrives in a session is genuinely yours.

That is the part that matters to me. Not the ability itself but what it is in service of. Every session is an opportunity to show someone something about themselves they could not see from inside their own experience. That is what I still find remarkable about this work even after all these years.

If you are ready to find out what your energy is actually carrying and what it has been trying to tell you, schedule a Life Clarity Reading and let’s see what comes through.